What Grinds Our Gears: TikTok’s constantly-changing layout

By: Dani Santos, SFU Student Change isn’t always good. Especially when that “change” happens every couple of weeks.  To me, TikTok is a form of escape....

What Grinds Our Gears: Winter commutes to Burnaby Mountain

By: Yulissa Huamani, SFU student Imagine waking up to a perfect snowy morning in the Lower Mainland. The temperature is cold, but the view outside...

What Grinds Our Gears: Rainy bus rides

By: Sarah Sorochuk, SFU Student With fall comes the rain, and for transit users that is the worst. And it means one thing: wet bus...

What Grinds Our Gears: Monopoly

By: Emilia Kuznetsova, SFU Student Monopoly sucks. It takes hours to play. Technically, the average game duration is about 45 minutes under standard rules, but...

What Grinds Our Gears: Stink bugs

By: Sarah Sorochuk, SFU Student Stink bugs — we all know them, we all hate them. That pesky species invades every summer and never really...

What Grinds Our Gears: Automated phone lines

By: Sarah Sorochuk, SFU Student Do you know the feeling where you are missing a package or something, and the only way to get your...

What Grinds Our Gears: Parking at SFU Burnaby

By: Yasmin Hassan, Staff Writer You’re running late, already stuck in traffic on the way up to campus, and then you finally pass the threshold...

What Grinds Our Gears: Convocations during classes

By: Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor I am not looking forward to this fall. My one and only reason for this is that I despise class-hour...

What Grinds Our Gears: Traffic tailgaters

By: Olivia Visser, Opinions Editor I can’t think of anyone who’s a fan of being tailgated. It’s not just the passive aggression that bugs me...

What Grinds Our Gears: Mosquitos

By: Izzy Cheung, Arts & Culture Editor Picture this: you’ve just spent a long day enjoying the lovely summer weather. You’ve been baking in the...